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Wheat in Montana

Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Wheat in Montana, summed across the 38 counties that insure it. The annual loss ratio — indemnity divided by premium — runs from 2.02 at the low end to 3.49 at the high end, with 2.78 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2021, at 4.23.

Wheat in Montana, year by year

YearPremiumIndemnityLiabilityPoliciesPolicies with a lossLoss ratio
2015$27,543,587$78,054,985$197,121,0395,2435,2322.83
2016$11,845,089$34,459,441$75,688,8163,0633,0552.91
2017$35,711,253$124,543,390$244,191,6325,7085,6993.49
2018$18,001,061$53,458,901$112,606,2012,9822,9772.97
2019$24,698,918$68,599,721$155,989,0264,3784,3732.78
2020$9,063,280$20,809,133$53,864,2011,6881,6852.30
2021$80,038,488$338,859,762$515,595,7878,3178,3044.23
2022$100,484,175$270,617,380$551,841,8907,9617,9582.69
2023$76,166,559$154,218,478$369,536,2844,6694,6682.02
2024$65,976,703$149,966,303$382,450,5694,9054,9042.27

Every county-crop the agency files in Montana →

Figures from the federal source files: EPA’s ECHO downloads, CMS provider files and the FMCSA census.

County cause-of-loss figures from the USDA Risk Management Agency’s Cause of Loss Summary of Business, county files, summed to the commodity and state. The loss ratio is the agency’s own published column, re-derived at this grain.

What this page shows

This page of the Velarion Records public-records register covers Wheat in Montana, summed across the 38 counties that insure it. The annual loss ratio runs from 2.02 at the low end to 3.49 at the high end, with 2.78 in the middle, and the worst year filed is 2021 at 4.23. It lists $ 449,529,110 Premium filed, $ 1,293,587,494 Indemnity paid, $ 2,658,885,445 Liability insured, 48,914 Policies, 48,855 Policies with a loss, 15,764,340 Quantity planted, and 15,746,517 Quantity lost.